cvs commit: src/etc/defaults rc.conf

[Nate Lawson]

David O'Brien wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 03, 2005 at 09:45:20PM +0000, Nate Lawson wrote:
> 
>>njl         2005-04-03 21:45:20 UTC
>>
>>  FreeBSD src repository
>>
>>  Modified files:
>>    etc/defaults         rc.conf 
>>  Log:
>>  Instead of leaving the current frequency setting at whatever the BIOS set
>>  on boot, force it to HIGH.  This is needed for some systems which appear
>>  to boot with a low acpi_throttle setting by default.  Thanks to Christian
>>  Brueffer for tracking this down on his system.
>>  
>>  MFC after:      1 day
> 
> 
> That is an awful fast MFC for something like this...
> I am worried about this for Athlon64 laptops, which per AMD specification
> defaults the CPU to the lowest Pstate.  We may fry some Athlon64 laptops
> unless we are *sure* our power daemon is working correctly.

Only the acpi_throttle driver has been MFCd so it only affects that 
driver in -stable.  We can continue testing the full set of drivers 
(including powernow) in -current with this setting.

Later on, I may consider just setting full speed in the acpi_throttle 
driver itself, but that has other issues (like preventing loading after 
boot).  If you're concerned, setting the values in /etc/rc.conf back to 
NONE gets you the previous behavior and this is better than hanging some 
slow systems.

-- 
Nate